BROWSER INFORMATION

Local Browser Info
You can get additional information from your browser if you type the following 'about' codes as URL into the 'Location' (or 'Go to:') field and press return. This must be done manually due to security reasons, it cannot be started from within HTML code! It is not guaranteed that all of the following codes work for Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla  or KDE Konqueror.

• about: Displays information about Netscape Navigator
• about:authors Displays author information"
• about:config Displays information about browser configuration
• about:fonts Displays information about fonts
• about:plugins Displays information about installed plugins
• about:cache Displays information about browser cache
• about:memory-cache Displays information about browser memory cache
• about:image-cache Displays information about browser image cache
• about:document Displays page information
• about:global Displays global history information
• about:license Displays Netscape license information
• about:security?advisor Displays browser security information
• about:security?issuer-logo Displays browser security logo
• about:security?subject-logo Displays browser security logo
• about:security?banner-secure Displays browser security logo
• about:credits retrieves credits info from www.mozilla.org
• about:logo Displays Netscape logo
• about:visilogo Displays logo
• about:rsalogo Displays logo
• about:tdlogo Displays logo
• about:fclogo Displays logo
• about:insologo Displays logo
• about:symlogo Displays logo
• about:hslogo Displays logo
• about:mmlogo Displays logo
• about:mozilla Displays text from 'The Book of Mozilla, 12:10' (This code also works for Microsoft Internet Explorer, but it just displays a blue background!)
• about:blank Displays a blank page

There are also some other codes you can enter into the 'Location:' field:

• mailbox: Opens the mailbox, on Windows similar to mailto: since it opens the 'Message Send' form (
• mailto: Opens the mailbox 'Message Send' form (This code also works for Microsoft Internet Explorer similar to mailbox:)
• news: Opens the news reader
• pop3: Opens the mailbox (issues an error message)
• file://c:/ Displays the contents of the root directory of drive C:/, instead of 'c:/' you can enter any other drive/directory name; on Unix systems you should try file:/// or file://localhost/
• view-source:source Open/view the source source. Source can be, combined with file:///, the path to a file on the local harddisk. Depending on the associated file types, this feature can have surprising effects since it may start applications. For example, view-source:file:///c:/windows/win.ini will open Notepad with win.ini. And view-source:file:/// alone will open an empty Notepad window.
• outlook:today Open Microsoft Outlook from within Microsoft Internet Explorer
• outlook:heute Same as outlook:today, but in German
• outlook:folder Open Microsoft Outlook folder folder from within Microsoft Internet Explorer, possible values are (may be language specific) calender, inbox, ...
• mms: starts the Windows Media Player, mms:\\path\file opens and plays the file
• shell:<folder> where <folder> is the name of a system folder, examples are "shell:startup" for "Autostart" folder or "shell:programs" for "Programs" folder

Manual Script Execution
You can directly type script code into the 'Go to:' field and execute it by pressing return. You must first specify the script language (followed by a ':') and then write the script code. The script language types are

• javascript: JavaScript
• livescript: LiveScript
• mocha: Mocha (Netscape Navigator only)
• jscript: JScript (Microsoft Internet Explorer only)
• vbscript: VBScript (Microsoft Internet Explorer only)

Example: Typing 'javascript:alert("Hello world")' as URL would open a message box with the text "Hello world"

Typing the script language type without code opens the Communicator Console where you can type in your code

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